BlackBerry Priv : First ever Android smartphone from BlackBerry up for order now

BlackBerry Priv the first ever Android smartphone is officially launched now and is up for order in most of the cities all around the world. But with this the news also hit the internet that BlackBerry will be switching off from the smartphone manufacturing business if in case they fail to sell “Five Million” smartphones per year.

Though this new Android based smartphone bring some hopes back, John Chen, the CEO of BlackBerry made the statement that the company needs to sell at least a count of “5 Million” smartphones to make the BlackBerry smartphone business a profitable one as the company is going a downfall from last few years.

Full Specifications –

This new Android smartphone from BlackBerry is featuring the 5.4 – inch capacitive touchscreen display with “Curved Edges.” The display is having the 540 ppi of pixels density that provides the 2560 x 1440 pixels of screen resolutions. The smartphone is having the 4 – row qwerty keypad slider too.

The smartphone is having the 3 GB of on – board RAM with 32 GB of the internal in – built storage capacity. The smartphone is also provided by the microSD card slot so that the user can expand the internal in – built memory accordingly to a whooping 200 GB as per the choice.

The smartphone is a single sim device with Wifi with hotspot, GSP with A – GPS, Bluetooth and USB like much needed features. It is also having the Accelerometer, Proximity and Compass sensors that made the smartphone a good one to buy.

Not only has this, in the front of the smartphone BlackBerry provided the 2 MP of selfie snapper camera. The rear camera of the smartphone is capable of the 2160p @ 30 fps of video recording and the front facing secondary camera is also capable of the HD video recording.

BlackBerry Priv specifications are made to run on a Hexa – Core 1.8 GHz processor with Dual 1.8 GHz Cortex – A57 and Quad 1.44 GHz Cortex A – 53 processors. The cpu of the device is coupled with the Qualcomm MSM8992 Snapdragon 808 chipset and Adreno 418 GPU. The smartphone comes with Android v5.1.1 – Lollipop out of the box.

The smartphone is packed with the 3410 mAh of Li – Ion battery with only the official BlackBerry’s Black color option for the device.

Price –

Specifications of BlackBerry Priv are amazing to attract the smartphone lovers toward it and as mentioned earlier the price of BlackBerry Priv is going to fall in the premium budget price range and why not the smartphone has the features that will amaze you.

Price in USA is 699

Price in Europe is 680€

Price in Britain (UK) is 500£

Price in India is 62,990 India Rupees

Price in Canada is 999 Canadian Dollars

Price in Australia is 1065 Australian Dollars

Price in Malaysia is 3300 Malaysian Ringgits

Price in Sri Lanka is 108,699 Sri Lankan Rupees

Price in Pakistan is 80,300 Pakistani Rupees

So after going through the BlackBerry Priv specifications and price what are your views about this new smartphone. Is it going to make any sort of impact in the World smartphone industry or not; your views are precious for us.

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